Pat McElhenny, Pennsylvania Stewardship Manager at the Nature Conservancy, explains one of two diseases impacting beech trees. Beech trees are facing extinction. "When you say northern hardwood, that ...

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A new tree disease has spread in forests in Massachusetts, joining invasive pests and climate change as top priorities for foresters to address. The state has found beech leaf disease in more than 90 ...

In a Holden Arboretum greenhouse lined with rows of potted trees, researcher David Burke points to dark banding patterns on one leaf – a sign of a relatively new disease that is afflicting area beech ...

BOLTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A disease threatening one of the Adriondack Park’s most commonly-sighted trees has reared its head. Last week, the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) reported a ...

Beech bark disease (BBD) is a complex forest syndrome that poses significant threats to beech-dominated ecosystems in North America and Europe. Initiated by the feeding activity of the scale insect ...

Map of spread of beach leaf disease This dark banding, visible on beech leaves from below, is a sure sign that beech leaf disease. A few weeks ago a reader suggested I write about beech leaf disease, ...

Police are seeking information about a 67-year-old woman who went missing in Detroit. Read full article: Michigan State Police employee claims she was forced into demotion after confrontation with ...

Oct. 13—RENSSELAER FALLS — A mycologist, before venturing into the woods, needs a knife, a hand lens and a field guide, Clair Burkum said Sunday as she began leading 11 mycology curious amateurs down ...

The idea of trees "talking" to one another through underground fungal networks – the so-called "wood wide web" – has captured the imagination of the public. This concept, where trees supposedly share ...